Fairphone

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Highlights:

Fair trade tantalum, tin, gold working directly with certified mines in the Congo, Zaire, and Peru.
Replaceable parts
High cost
Closed hardware
Open software

Links

Modular smarphone on Wikipedia - [1]
Modular libre laptop - EOMA68
Forksand - libre laptop by Jeff Moe of Lulzbot

OSE Assessment

Fairphone scores approximately 50% - a middle score on the OSE Specifications Metric.
Main pros: open source software (not completely), fair trade components, longer lifetime, replaceable components.
Main cons: closed hardware design, not distributive enterprise, high cost. Low recursion level, such as not using MLCC [2] instead of tantalum to avoid Congo all together.

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